Martha ‘Matilda’ Witherington (Dublin, 1775) eloped with future revolutionary Theobald Wolfe-Tone at 16, lost him to a British prison at 23, spent 20 years fending for herself and her one remaining son in post-revolutionary Paris. The restoration of her tombstone in 1998 provoked the excavation of the story of this pragmatic revolutionary.
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Film details
- Country of production
- Ireland
- Year
- 2005
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Length
- 25"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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